The Sun. — London, England, 1809-01-23 00:00:00

FRENCH BULL477IVS. I".vEN rY-FIIZST 13 ULL aTIN of tlic i Alt . Ml' M'SPAIN. • ( DATE.) The'English _entered Spain on the 'Poth 96tober'; duri t ig .1 he thontims ofgovernb.er 'and Pet:ember they brh lei. the'de - sii:uetion or the Aruty of at Isminoin of Army of Estramadurn at Burgos, 4i that of Arra,, , oll and Valentin, at Tuclela ; of the ,A,rirmy otltes'erve atSdalo-Sierra ; in fine, they be held. the tail of Mtdrid without making a single movement, amid without any attempt to succour the S i mosh to . Wll6lO, however, a divisiOn . Qt time trOopswould have proved of censiderable .istanee. In the begitiithlg of, D e cember, infor mation was received, that the C 411111113 of the British (11,111 y were retreating on Co, vliere they toire to re.e;mll . l,ll-It. By later accontits, it, afterwards imp i.e.ired that they hid,halted, and that on the 16111 D.Tviimber they het out front. Salamanca in order to take the field. As early as the t 51b, the lightca-, 'valry had marched from Valladolid. The whole of time army passed the Douro, and arrived on ::3d in presence of the Deice Of Dalmatia at Sal- As soon as the Emperor was apprised at Madrid,. of this unexpeeled determination:on the part of the English; . he marched in order to cut off their retreat, and purque their rear. But notwithstanding the dili 7 geticc exerted by the French troops, the passage of the Mountain of Goadarana, which was covered %kith snow, .the incessant rain,,and ti)eoverfloi.eing of the tiinents, delayed their march—fad two days. Ott the 22d the Eitiperor left"MadritL ' His head. (ratters were oti. the 23d at yill4-Castin, the 2 ramie salmi , and on the '27Th at Mediu° de Rio sioety, O n the 24th, at break of day, the enemy had begun to move, in order t o outflank the left of the Duke of Dalmatia, but having been informed during the, blunting of the -movement that took place at Madrid, they iintnediatelrbegan to retreat, abandoning their Spanish aditerintsi whose passions t hey had inflamed, t lac reinams Übe Gallician army, that had conceived fresh hopes; some of . their hospi tals, and part of their' baggage, and u great number of strog , ,liers. They comk9it,ted, great devastations , the irrevitaole result of foreed.ularehes of troopr..in retreat they carried away Wileheirl' mules, horses; arid lieVeritt otht Oft!ag ; they piaa'aecliki'greai her of churches and convents. In the Abbey of Sa `flagon, wh;ch towiiirted 60 Was, 'Mid which had ' #all 310.6 g. been respected by the French arury, they committed every•s6rt ci-dept . edation." Every wh,Fre,.. and the Monks were seen flying at their approach. This di,orderly coodua exasperated the country against them, and their difference of lan guage, wattnera, and of religion, conyibufed 'not little to twat disposition of men'tilninds.:: They re proached the' Spaniards with =liitffitrg no lenge!. an • I,r. m,oy to tme, with theirs tfi qßd t Airh having de ceived the' English Governmeatahe :Spaniards re turned fur vuswer, that Spaintailinitrierous, armies, but that the, English had allowed .thern to be destroy ed, withoiLhating made ,any effort to assist them . Drit'ing the fifteen days Oat have just elapsed, they 4 . 1 d slot tire a single mush et. :the light cavalry onli had given sdrueblows with their swords. ..Gen. Lottesbt et., , at 18tat head of 400 light horse of the viartL fell in at the close of , the evening with a column rd ttrigliSh infantrY. On, their march,, sabred a fit4o3lJti of soldiers, dud 'carried disorder into the column. • ~z, Lurcav:::‘, I)!;3 t . , ;*:;m:r.s, Ca,11(1 of t!le. ( hasseurs oi' the tik.444.1)ed1 , v0 da . y4 b'efore , ‘vitit three stioadrnut; of ItiVregittient; having taken a tillAntity of bagipge, of .i , ./o3Jt;I:ill: and . Str: 144n.1 finding thp. brid i 2e ho,,down, iinagined that; the town of '4.',....iriventa ev,leuotecl. Car , t w,tmy byttiat itiTett;t4.;ity Witt) Whic,lt the Ft Loch 401d10 i.ll4ve bet:n su often r-proae.hed, ha sward the river, in orda' to tnaite for Bettateinti, where he'leti`in with the wiroleof the cat ;dry of tile ie3r.ga4ird tong - Irere en sueii, of . 401.) :ekrinat 2000. UtTe *was' nernbeiti. "I'lloso'brme fellows 'recrossed the sstE r.;'The herie of:Lien. Lawtevaa ., was.killed by • a hall.. h3d reeetyed'a Wound from a sliot„atiatying ditit:lfunted, wasotaile prisoner.' Ten of his cliausturs, who. had .alsO,heen di s m o unted, were 111, 1 ,, \ vi b e, taken, Its tlvi 4, drowned, ,and twenty v.Tre. wounded. Tho cons,t, 113Vc-,. con. qlvat•they woqld have to dread froa i atst h rilcr, gc:i'stral'Jfi'6l.l' deatillit bOt it wits the fault ( 4 1: a Vre:sclittian litt-toght to be blame?! and re 111',:ck.1 wt 1111. t , s1111t• time. The Klaiber of prisoners tat4en tron4„tire °licitly up to ttte present moment, . arid <s ho are et.;.vtly composcd or' scattered indivi do.,l4;. toid- 4aJOl,liti 14 360. ttsth' the, lit:ad.-(inaritirs of the ginperor. at Valuers te I t:.t. isr.rd-quartersof the !Juke of the-Duke' of ..F,rellingen at f "rit Uo 1414' , t,.p.troor l frOnt Madrid, the Etn veror appointed King Joseph in Lieut.-getivral, wk the Poromina or the g nrisol of the Cdpital, to, gether with thy: corps of the Dukes of Ptntzic Ondr Ballot)°, tho divisions'of cavalry of LAsAtAre, Nitt, BAVl),:and IJA lona, I\lAr3ornto is - left for the protection of the centre.. • • The weather is exceedingly liad.—To a piercing cold, heavy and ocartinited riiins have si.l:7cL-L:tled... We sutler, but the English must stirrer still port-. TWENTY-SECOND BuLLETIN OF TILE ARMY OF SPAIN. BEN NVENTE, DLc. 3!. On. the 30th, the cavalry commanded by the Duke of Istria passed the Exch. On the evening of the 30th, it traversed Ifenai , ente, and ptirstied the eue4' , my as far as Puenta de la Vilani. On the same day the head-quarters were established at Benavente.— The English were not satisfied with destroying en arch of the bridge of Etela, but they al,o blew up: .the buttresses with mines, a damage. wholly unpro- . and which, contd be hurtful only to the .country ; the rear betook themselves to the most • shocking plundering. The soldiers, in the .excess of their continual intemperance, gave reins to ail the, : licentiousness of brutal.' inebriety. Every. thing in their condUcl bespoke rather an hostile army than 'one Which came to the assistance of it friendly, Power. - The contempt of the English for the Spaniards gave a sharper edge to the impression made by so Many outrages. This experience . will throw a salutary 444) on those insutreo,ions, instigated by. reigners. One cannot help regretting that the Eng . lish had nor sent an 'army into -Andalusia. The army that . , passed throng!. Benaveute ten days ogu, triumphed already: in hope, and . already.„ having their colours hung ullth trophies, nbthiu „Could equal the audacity and sew it'l they displayed. Ott their return, their countenance was sadly changed, They' were•harraSsed with fatigue, and seemed to be borne down with shame bf retreating withot# a bia tle. In order to anticipate the just reproaches of the Spaniards,, the Ltiglish continued incessantly to repeat, that they had been promised to, bc,joined by numerous forces; and the Spaniards repelled their calumnious assertions by arguments ta which! there was no answer. Ten days ago, when ,the LugliSh were traversing The country, they well, knew that_ the SpaniSh armies had been destroyed. The Commisseries whoM thy enipleyed to eccompany the armies of the left, of'. the . etutre, and of the right, knew Will well that was it nel. 50,5)00 men , only, but t mow men that the 4paniards had put under arms th.n these 180,000 coe:1 had taught, while, tor Si:c weeki, the English ,had remained unconcerned Spectators of their :struggles. These CoMmisittries: could not but have wade it known that the Spanish armies had ceased to exist. The Englii•i4therefore, could not be ignorant fhat the Spaniards were'with ,,. out armies, When, ten days ago, they againi moved forward, intoxicates with the silly hope of deceiving the vigilance Of the French General, they fell into the snare which the French General had laid lot drawing them into the open country. They' had* before-made some marches en their return to their You ought,' observe. the Spaniardi, ib have persisted in that prudent determination, or else you tilionla have been hate ettough to balantx: the des tinies of the French. Above all, you otight nut to have at first advanced with such coutidence, only af terwards to fall hick with so much precipitation. Yott should not, have drawn the theatre of the war among no,,andexpo , ,edai to the ravages of the two armies.. After li3ving brought clown upon otir heads such accumulation - of disasters, you ought not to threw the fatilt Open us. We Inive not twen able to rest tire French troops ;. nor do you.,suem more able to make head against them- Furbeir therefore to accuse us, to outrage our misfortunes we wee to yon,* • The English liA.d reported .throughout the wintry. that they had defeated taeou Of the Freed) cavalry on the 14anks of the Eala, and that the field of tenths was covered with their dead. The tuhabilants of Benavente were much surprised upon visiting the field of battle, to have found there. only three Eng, lishmen and two F . :elicit. That contest of 400 men. against '2060, does great honour to the French,— During the whole of the loth, the river continued to swell considerably; so that at the elose of the evening it became intpossible to ford it. it was. in the middle of the titer, and at the moment he was on the point • of being drewned, .that General Lareavau, being carried away by the current : to the Side Occupied by'the Lttgii h, wet, made pritionet..--- The, loss of the enemy M. killed 2p(l wounded in th . at affair of advanced posnr, has been. far greater than that of the Fr, wit. The flialit Of the English win 60 precipitate, that they left ;it their licHpi , • tai their sick and' wounded, ohtiged to burn a fine tipl.;azthe f tents and •elethit4. They . killed 1111 the -h6tses that were over or wounded, and rOigiu entbii'r,.fas rent: ; It is scarcely hue to be credited how that,speoacle so shOckfflit, to our manners, of hundreds 'of litascs sltdt with ponoll, is revolting to the Spaniards's... l‘lany perioni look upon it as a sort of sacritice.— , S o me religions rite which gives rise, in the' mind or` the Spaniards, to very gtrange - pictures of the reli. gion of England. The English are retreating in the utmost ham., All the Germans in their pay are de. setting. Our 21/143y will, this evening, be at As. torga, neat the borders ut Gallicia. TWENTY.THIRD BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN. BENEVgNTE, JAN. I.—The • Duke 'of 'Dalmatia. arrived on the .30th December at Mancifla, where was the left pt the enemy, consisting of the Spa niards under General llumAn . a. Gen. FICANORSCHL overthrew, them in a single charge—killed a great number, took two standards, and made 'prisoners a COlonel, two Lidatenatit-Colonels, 50 Officers, arid. •t5O) _ Ott the 31st the'Duke of 'Dalmatia entered Leorr,!. where he found 000 sick. RostANA has succeeded,. .BLAKe in the cummand after the battle of Espinosav , l . The remains of that veiny which, while before ND. boa, .consisted of 50,000 men, were reduced to a 1..., most bow at Mantilla. These wretches, without clUutlat, and oppreSsed with every misery, filled the hospitals. • The English are held in detestation by these troops, whom they despise, and by the peaceable inhabi tams, whom they abuse, and , whose substance they `devour, in order to Support their own artn . y. The mind of the people of the Kingdom of Leon is much changed. They loudly cry 'Out, for peace and. their King; they curse the English andApjF iii fallacious insinuations. They reproach them,, with being the cause of the shedding of'Spinish bleod,in order to feed the English monopoly and perpetuate the war on'the Continent. The perfidy of England and her motivotate now obvious to the meanest and most illiterate Spanish 'peasant. They know what +f hey sutler : and ,the authors of their sufferings ate before their eyes. Meantime the English retreat with the utmost haste, pursued . by the Duke of 'lstria, with 9000 ca valry. Among the magaiines which:they burnt at Begevento were, independent of tents, 4000 blankets, and It great quantity • of, rum. We picked up up wards of 200 waggons 'of baggage and ammunition,, left on the road from BClleVtisitt, ,to. .Astorga. , Thw shattered remains 01 IS. , )NIANA's army threw them selves `into the latter town, and increased the con- lion fusion. • The events of the English Expedition to Spain must furnish materials for a tine opening Speech to the English Parliatnent. Tile English nation meat be informed, 'thee her army reMained three mooths in a state of inaction, while it was in thefr power to assist the Spaniards ; that its leaders, those whose orders they executed, hat e be.en guilty of the ex treme folly of making a movement for Ward after the Spanish armies had been destroyed; that, in a word, it entered upon the new year by running 11W11,,,, pursued by an enemy, whotu it did not dare to tiOt,l and by the curses of those Wilolll it had stirred. u.p . , • 0; • resistance, and. whom it %CIS its duty to support. 7- Such enterprises and such r.;sults L. 7411 !wrong only toi a country that has rso government. rox, ,ur even! Prrr, would not have beam guilty of such bluottets To contend against France by land, who has one bun 7 - tired thousand cavalry, • 50,t)n0 [torso for all sorts o f n oi tar y to ipa t ent, pnd nine hundred thousand infantry, were, on the part of England, carrying folly to the uttnust extrebie ; it betrays indeed agreedineis fur disgrace it is, in five, to administer thei affairs of England just as the Gibillet of the Thuilleriesicould wish. them to be administered. It betrays no small igooftince Id Spain, to h4V . e imagined . th at a ' y impoitance could be, attached to popular' :COL .motion, or to indulge the smallest hope aline y . . kindling its that country the flames of Sediti such a * contlagratiOn could be 'attended withAni • : .• sided result or any material duration. A 'levy itt a . ticul .1 3 iiests are quite stitficient to composeaniff'pro pagate libels, to cairy a momentary dis Order into the minds of men ; but something else is leituircd to cause frnation to rise to 'arms. At the time of the French Revelation, it rel mired *bleu yeuni suul the presence of the Convention to prepare the means of military successes; And who; that does, not knovi to what hazards ii'rance was nevertheldss exposed; Prance was, .however, stirred . up:. Supported by the LIMIUIIIIOUS resolution to reassert riglAs L etch s h e had, been deprit'ed in times ,of'Obicluit . In Spain it was kiew men who stirred up the ple in order to preserve the exelOsive prissetsio "t rift rights odious to the people. I'hose who fmt tho,lnquisitiot?, forqw Vilincit4cans, anti J0i 7 .1 rights, might be animated . _ by an ardent zeal for their perbotial iiiterests, : but could never ininse into a whole millet) a firm resolve or a permanent opi nlyn, of 'Ole Englibli, feudal rights . ? the Fraueiseans, .and the Influisitioo, have no longer any eminence in Spain. After the Capture iit".llps`as,; Qeneral Govvrom SINT.CI it shaped 4is tilarch itipinst P4reeloua 4 at t ho lead of the 7th 'corps. Hl3 uiverst.ql every thing that he fouti4 bvfore that plat and formed a junc. dill General DunEs:a. That juntilon brought "liii - a my to 40,000 men. 1 " '4l eDukes of Taavrso and AIIRANTES have ca • qii‘ti iat the outworks at Saragossa. The General of 'lltngeekAtt..,l.4cotrr, is preparing the 14 possession of that city without any loss. Jim King of Spain is gone to Aranjuez, in order to' review the first carps, commanded means of get by the Duke of Ilau.tiso. . .' - TWENTY.FOURTH BULLETIN of the,*ftiVlY of SPAIN. ASTattOA,JA:: s,sai;eror Arrived ham' on Siae Est. 'The mad liinil-Zeneinen-itt to Astorga is covered with dead torsesOelonging to the English, with travelling carriages;,artillery,caissons, and war- Ike stores. There were "roand st«Astorea, tillt ;;crit - es of sheets, blankets, and the tools and io4/110 isaments . of pioneers. ~an r liCs ib fetangaNit's . army, it is reduced . almost to. ~ pnopilog. The small nomber that remain are with it3b4it pogs, shoes,,p.ty, food, and it is no. longer to Abc considered. any thing . . • ,The Empererinis charged the Duke of Dniroat:a .with the glorions tnission of pursuing the Eoglidi to the place of their etuharkation,,and of driving then) into the sea, at thnpoint of the sword. The English will learn what h'is 'to make an in considerate movement in preserice of the French, 'army. 'the manner in which they have been.drivch' from the. Kingdoms ot. Leon and Pallioia, and this. Alestruflion of a part of their army . will, iio doubt., teach them to be more circumspea in their ions on the Continent, Alf that remains of the Spanish insurgent troor ahs been without pay for several months back. MAILS. Gotzenburgh. ~~•X • •6. " PRICE OF STOCKS riffs DAT AT TIT/ILVZ &CLOD/C. C°nSUIS ...... . Gil 6s 651 ex. di THE SUN. 40L11/4 OCit . ll /1‘1:114)31 AUDSA! LONDON, munnwr, aw34taY lsog• ~, - - IMPORTANT iNTELLIGENCETtioIiSPAig i bleb In actinion to the very interesting accuuntsw-- yve communicated to • our Roaders. on Saturday, ". are now enabled to state, that the whole of our Ar 4 my has embarked. In the Bulletin issued by Government on Ptar" day, it was stated, that as General STEWptur va; on the lutlt, the Transport.; frail'leaving C ,ronna. Vigo were standing into the Bay. On the 14th above ico Transports arrived, and the remaindee reached, corunna the next day. During almoot the whole of Sunday the 15th out *bops were almost constantly engaged in - skirmish'. WittiJthe Enemy, but they did not appear to be IP Asufliciexit force to make a serious.attack upon our .position y their obje& seemed.rather to he to eagle the attention . of our troops, and to prevent their t at barkation until the regmittder of th© French An i l' which was advancing by..freed marches, lid On .Monday the Ifith, the expe6ed rcinfl'r er meats had joined the French Troops in the ralign baPrhood of curunna, and between ten and cleo ti o clock on the morning of that day, they began vi r pppear in considerable force, and as the llriti` h ,Generals expelled an immediate attack., our Arie • was ,formed to receive the Enemy. It is occeo nti to state, that before this time a considerable part the Army, particularly of the Cavalry, hid cm' barked. Marshal, Souvr, who commanded th`o .Trent'' snent sops 011ie in . reconnoitering our Po" botbre lie gav,e. 'orders to commence t h e air cl‘.' At length, a t little after two o'clock, ~ t hey vaned, ankcommeneed the attack With their 0 511 ' impetuosity; - Theitefforts-were direeted against our right wing; which it was obviously intention to turn, Their furi o u s onset ceived with "the firmness and coolness Whiji SI) .tiarticularlk elka,m6lerize British soldiers. hi t Bade under L O rd W ILLIAM B ENTINqx, censish il P the 4th, 4ed . , and 59th regiment, - compose" die , . part.of our, line against, which the enemy princ i l )all, diretited their efforts; but almost the whole of Army was eagage d. The attacks of the Enemy, though violent tald peated, were repOlsed with great slaughter, all' Af LI 'Tramps in their turn beanie the tooaibnts.